Jacob Taylor seemingly had every reason to be nervous as he approached his final frame Nov. 30.
The Pickerington Central senior, who is in his first year on the boys bowling team and took up the sport less than a year ago, was competing in only his second official match. Nonetheless, Taylor swore he wasn’t thinking about bowling a perfect game until others did so.
Taylor reached perfection during his first game against Groveport at Rule 3, rolling the first 300 in the program’s 10-season history. He finished with a 189 for a 489 series, leading the Tigers to a 2,235-2,123 victory in a COHSBC-A Division and OCC-Buckeye match. At the urging of longtime friend Nick McGuire, who was one of Central’s top bowlers a season ago, Taylor started bowling about this time last year and purchased his first ball in January. It was too late to join the team last season, but Taylor used the past several months to hone his game, even switching from two-handed to one-handed bowling during the summer.
“I got subbed out and I wasn’t happy with that,” Taylor said. “I knew I didn’t play the lanes how I wanted to … so when I came in , I was going in with a clean slate and not thinking about what happened. I wanted to use what the lane gave me, and things added up.”
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